Following up: I finally had the time to look up the (apparent) provisions that the patient on The Pitt was shouting. He kept mentioning “Title 18,” followed by numbers that must be sections. I do not know whether he meant Title 18 of the U.S. Code or of the Pennsylvania Code. So I will cover both. These are the provisions I could hear in the foreground and that showed on the close caption. He was mumbling a lot in the background, so there might be others.
18 U.S.C.: (In order of mention)
§ 508: Forging or falsifying government requests for common carrier services.
§ 2709: FBI access to electronic communications records
§ 2710: Prohibit disclosure of certain sale-and-rental information by video tape service providers.
§ 2701: Prohibit access to stored communications.
§ 2901: Does not exist
§ 1938: Does not exist
18 Pa. Cons. Stat. (In order of mention)
§ 508: Permissible use of force by law enforcement
§ 2709: Crimes of harassment and stalking of a child.
§ 2710: Crime of ethnic intimidation
§ 2701: Crime of simple assault
§ 2901: Crime of kidnapping
§ 1938: Does not exist
So what is he talking about? Is he (as I suggested in my prior post) a student who lost it studying law or for the Bar? Or did the patient have some kind of break over the subjects of these laws–perhaps something to do with electronic records?
I missed this at the time: This patient reached the hospital in an ambulance at the end of Ep. 2, shouting “2901.” One viewer interpreted that as a reference to the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The original Senate bill was S.2901, although the Senate passed the House version. So this person predicted the student was a victim of hazing or was suffering PTSD from some hazing incidents. I think the repeated references to Title 18 this week suggest something else.
Tune in next week.